Hospital installations were badly needed near Ports for the large numbers of transients: troops awaiting shipment overseas, or returning from overseas, as well as patients being returned to General Hospitals in the Zone of Interior for further treatment, and Port personnel. During 1942, and also in...
Near Plympton, handsome early eighteenth century country house bought in1835by Dr Charles Aldridge for use as a private lunatic asylum. Censured in the 1844 Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy for using excessive degree of restraint. In 1844 it had 17 private and 66 pauper patients, the latt...